Guitar Hero: The Movie: Do we really need another movie based video game?

XboxOZ360 comments on the Guitar Hero Movie and wonders if it is a bad idea:

"With movies like Max Payne set for release this year and Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li & Tekken next year along with talks of making a Gears of War movie and a Bioshock movie, it seems that Guitar Hero is the next game that's been thrown into the hat to be adapted to the big silver screen.

Of course it may not be all bad if it was actually done right, but then again there have been so many hashed movies about a young boy's dream coming true, making the big time and being the underdog. Do we all really need to see another movie with the same concept but a different area, gaming?"

It isnt so much the fact it is based on a game. Afterall, there are countless bad movies based on books. It just depends on the director etc. Tomb Raider was good...what are people expecting? Alfred Hitchcock??

the game industry is so large now theirs going to be movies and other stuff cumming out just for game. I don't mind this but if they are going to bring out a movie for a game they need to to a good job at it and not wast our time (Uwe Boll)

Why the heck do you want to make a game based on pressing coloured plastic buttons to a tune, didn't South Park point out the lameness of the concept enough, Isn't that kid who left school to make a living of playing the game enough to show just how stupidly far fetched this idea is? Seriously; NO. Do we want another 'The Wizard'?

Unless its done in a Gorrilaz stylish animated fashion like the games art design is like...Just NO.

A movie based on Guitar Hero would be just an inferior and unoriginal cliche about some kid becoming a rock star. No need for a movie like this to even exist. As someone said, it sounds like a Disney movie

Well i didn't want to put every single game to movie adaptation up there on the list now which is why i stated that there are other movies that people may think are bad and so forth...

Resident Evil 1 + 2 were not bad i haven't seen the 3rd one... Tomb Raider was meh... But like i said there are plenty of other movies that people have watched and may think are bad, good or downright WTF!?

A gamer coming and seeing a movie made from a game will "look" for every possible fault, judge the movie on how the game is played, make judgments based on how well they may like or dislike that game.

Yet ask a non-gamer what the movie is like, and many usually find them entertaining, intriguing, and down right enjoyable. Tomb Raider wouldn't be so popular if it was a terrible movie per-se' . . . Hitman when watched by an outsider is a quick, action based movie with some excellent sections that you would well find in a XXX or even James Bond movie.

I go into a movie based on a game looking at it as that, a new movie. The fact thatit is made from the basis of a game is not really an issue, just how much I "enjoy" the experience" of the movie is how I judge it.

Gamers are the worst critics, as they always judge things based on a biased view. If the so-called "terrible" movie - game tie-ins were so bad, they wouldn't pull in the huge $$'s many of them do.

Sure, there are the down right flops and ones that simply did not work and have some terrible acting in them, but there's an equal number that are hugely entertaining and basically down right fun to watch.

When I've had friends over and we've watched such movies, who are all non-gamers, they usually enjoy the game based movies. As they see them simply as that, a movie, nothing more.

the thought of this movie made me laugh and the thought of Brett Ratner wanting to do such a movie makes me laugh even harder this guy is desperate after what he did to the Xmen movie he s lost so much credit and to think he possibly doing the God of War movie makes me cry he s gonna trash that movie as well..